Empire Under Siege: Japan 1939 (Completed)

Shanghai: Easy to capture (with naval help), a MUST to defend & hard to defend (2 ROC gens waiting at Nanking).


By turn 10 - 15, I encountered a Mongolian & ROC counterattack. Here, a massive counterattack across practically the ENTIRE THEATRE can be seen & felt. I used Yamamoto to kill gens while spawning assault inf to hold your gains.
Also, USA is sending wave 1 from mainland USA around this time

WHAT ? Blamey has left Brisbane ?

Oh my god

Time for another sit-rep (Turn 78):

Pacific Ocean Front:

Beaten the enemy counterattacks, blew up Halsey's aircraft carrier, took back Midway (with the help of a newly built Missile Silo in Tokyo) & finally attacking Hawaii for real.

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Baltics Front (evolved form of the Soviet-Mongul Front):

I kept attacking Eastward, eventually reaching & taking Moscow.

With Moscow as my closest base & no Axis naval breakthroughs in the North Sea, I'm trying to claim control of the sea by using motorised inf to attack the subs (Yes, I'm sending in ground troops to kill of subs).

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North American-Kamchakta, USSR Front:
Doolittle & Clark's attack drove me out of Alaska entirely. These 2 gens REFUSE to come to the sea, so I've brought the sea to them! Eat Destroyer guns!

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Indian Front (evolved from the Soviet-Mongul Front):

Started spawning units in Beijing to attack nameless inner Mongolian ROC city. Then defeated the communists at Langzhou which I took & used to take ChongKing.

My successful defense against the Indian counterattack allowed me to move to Lhasa.

Attacking New Delhi with armoured cars (spawning in the NE-ternmost Indian base) & a howitzer. Kolkata is not yet captured.

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SouthEast Asia Front (evolved from Sino-Taiwan-Korean Front):

After finally deciding a sea crossing is bad, I attacked Shanghai via Beijing.
When the Siege of Taiwan is lifted, Yamamoto attacks Shanghai.
Eventually, Yamashita joins in & help captures Shanghai, moving on to Nanking next.

After the Siege of Taiwan is lifted, I counterattacked against Hong Kong, taking it & prompting Zhang Z.Z. to leave Nanking undefended to attack me.

With the Fall of Hong Kong, I used Taiwan to invade the Philippines. Built a missile silo in Taiwan & took Manila with its help.

Troops in Southern China attacked Southeast Asia. Taking Phnom Penh, Bangkok, nameless Southern French Indochina city & Yangon woth the help of Missiles from Taiwan.

Currently attacking Kuala Lumpur & the nameless Northern Borneo city.

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Mediterranean Front (Evolved from Soviet-Mongul Front): Took Stalingrad where I built a missile silo.

Then took back Soviet captured Northern Romania & Hungary and Greece captured Sophia, Bulgaria by Missile.

Also captured Athens, Damascus & Jerusalem.

Troops from Romania-Hungary gonna march across Europe to ddefend Nazi Germany conquered France & Spain herself.

I'm gonna use some necro power and bump this up with an actual guide instead of a bad, text-based playthrough.



Southern Expansion Doctrine:

WW2 had just broke out and now, the Empire is ready to create a new world order in the Pacific.

The troops in Korea are to attack Beijing via Japanese held Manchuria. These troops are to defeat the Chinese vanguard, lay siege to Beijing and swiftly capture the city. Afterwards, send them into Northern China.

The Manchurian forces, led by Yamashita are to blitz into Siberia. You have 2 choices: (1) Send Yamashita towards Europe via the USSR and use troops to aid in the Alaskan Campaign. (2) Send Yamashita towards North America via Kamchakta and Alaska.

The troops in Taiwan are to attack Hong Kong. Let the fleet help capture Hong Kong them move them southward.

The forces on the main islands are to move against Shanghai. Use your destroyers in the western fleet to aid in its capture. The eastern fleet is to quickly capture Midway and defend against the American-Canadian attack. The northern fleet has to defeat the Soviet Pacific Fleet, capture their ports, hold the northernmost port, defend against the American Alaskan Fleet and capture the port at Alaska.




The Eastern Theatre

Here, your enemies are the USA and Canada.
Both of them are formidable foes, especially against our overstretched empire and they seek a decisive battle as well.

As mentioned, the eastern fleet will lead the attack on Midway. The troops will be light inf continuously raised in Tokyo. When Midway falls, prepare for the Allied counterattack.

The northern fleet has its own goals and will not contribute directly to the defence of the main islands. However, after they destroy the Alaskan fleet, assisted in the fall of Kamchakta and Alaska, and captured the surrounding ports, they should be sent to raid and harass the enemy along their west coast.

After sinking the enemy at sea, sail the Midway troops to Hawaii and capture it. I do recommend building up a force which will be sent to North America via neutral Mexico. If you want this second front to be more sucessful, quickly clear out Indonesia, the Philipines, New Guinea and Australia so that you can redeploy the troops there to your new front.




The Southern Gateway into Europe:

From Shanghai, attack via the Central plains towards the west.

From Hong Kong, attack into Southeast Asia via Vietnam.

With light inf spawned in Taipei and the western fleet, quickly conquer the Philippines and cut the region off from Australia.

When attacking India, the key to taking New Delhi is to geographically besiege the city, until you can directly conduct a siege of the city.

The rest is self-explanatory: Expand the empire, and keep on expanding.




The Northern Gateway into Europe:

The plan is simple. Attack with inf via the USSR into Europe. Make sure you use fast moving troops like motorised inf at the very least. Avoid tough cities (lvl 3 or above) if possible. Use the strategy which you employ on New Delhi to take these cities.

As for your troops in Northern China, send them westward and remember to take out Mongolia. Afterwards, it's just a clear attack into Europe via Central Asia and Stalingrad.


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And that's all for now. raiyan, I hope this can answer your request for a guide to Japan 1939.

thanks